Matter of reality slowly breaks as with the bright shine as if from the heavens a force of vessels exit warp. Ice shattering across their hulls. The small vessels were tiny compared to any other conventional factions multi km warships, being mere tens of meters long for most with the largest roughly being a little over 200 meters in length. An arrowhead formation of the vessels as they exited ftl.
The Last Graveyard (Event)
kola2134
kola2134They see a T̶H̶I̶C̶C̶ wide debris field, with counlesss ships, varying in size from 130m long Kripteria-class destroyers, to larger 1250m long Apocalix-class carriers. Most are wrecked, but at the center there is a 3000m long Zworder-class heavy battleship, armed with a Direct Flame Strike Cannon. A few ships are identified, mostly old Storm and Lascaux-class ships.
Also present are six small fighters, drifting in fron of the ships.
ZendikaroftheWest
The force begins a slow advance. The vessels slowly cutting through the field towards the center. Search lights powering on and beginning to scan over the area.
kola2134
Ahead of the vessel's is a dormant Vengful-class twin deck carrier, blackened and burned with laser fire. On it's deck are two autonomous scorpion fighters, which immidiatley streak at the ships. However, one of the fighers explodes due to, well old and never used engines, but the other continues, streaking at one of the cruiser's
ZendikaroftheWest
A blue beam streaks forward from one of the vessels that slams into the fighter, destroying it. The fleet continuing its advance towards the center.
kola2134
Before it was destroyed, it launched six "missiles" whitch streak toward the cruiser.
ZendikaroftheWest
As the rockets close multiple streams of blue light streak impacting them and destroying them, any that somehow survive that were met with a field of small red bolts of energy rapid firing like point defence.
kola2134
The "rockets" dodge the shock cannons, and while two are destroyed by the point defense, the other four impact on the cruiser and slice their way into the hull, then board the ship.
ZendikaroftheWest
they impact upon the shields being halted by the solid barrier as the pd slam fire into it ripping them apart.
kola2134
With the destruction of the fighter, the way seems clear. A way through the ships, to the Zworder-class battleship.
ZendikaroftheWest
The task force of ships continue the slow advance into the field of destroyed vessels. A hatch dropping from the rear of the cruisers as they let out a deployment of fighter wings.
kola2134
Nothing further hinders them, as it is eerily quiet. The fighters find nothing beyond the debris. However, unbeknownst to the ships, a submarine is watching them, reccording their every movement.
ZendikaroftheWest
The small force of vessels continue the advance through the field as scanners slowly go over everything they pass and the fighters continue a screen.
The remains of a small HDC fleet arrive at the location. It contains 2 cruisers, 3 frigates and 10 destroyers.
The main Cruiser, the HDC Firestorm, leads the formation, followed by the second one. They scan the location as good as they could. The HDC Firestorm sends out a fighter squadron out of its small hangar. The fighters split up to search the ruins. The HDC Firestorm sends a message on every available frequency: "Can somebody hear us? Is there anybody left?"
Hannizio
(sorry, i forgot about this, if you want to i can continue or stop dis)
As the ships continue, they detect the HDC fleet arrive, and hear the message sent out. This seems to wake up some of the remaining ships, as two cruisers and one destroyer come alive and attack the fleet. On the fleets long range scanners, it is seen that more ships are near the HDC fleet as it sent out the message
ZendikaroftheWest The fleet directly goes into attack position. The frigates charge up their railguns with strong penetration cannons with explosive charge. The destroyed ships all around create a situation where the ships are closer to each other than in open space, perfect for the cannons of the frigates. the cruisers make their missiles ready (High explosive and HEAT) together with their 4 smaller nearly spinal railguns and cannons. All cannons load high shells with a solid heavy core or HEAT ammo for bigger calibers.
The fleet was caught by surprise, so it cant react to the attack directly. The cruiser tries to open communications, while chaos breaks out on the bridge
Hannizio
The fleet facing them consists of three attack cruisers, two missile cruisers, and twelve destroyers. They are split into two groups. Group one is about 14km from the ships on the portside, and group two is about 32km off the bow. Group one consists of the three attack cruisers and four of the destroyers. Group two consists of the two missile cruisers and the other eight destroyers. The attack cruisers immidateley launch their side mounted Eater-1 class self destructing attack fighters, which streak at the HDC firestorms bridge. They also begin firing volleys of beam fire at the cruisers. Missiles are launched from the missile cruisers, fanning out into a scattered pattern, meant to deter point defense. All of the destroyers close fast, beams firing from their many turrets.
ZendikaroftheWest (How did the 2 cruisers become 5 cruisers?) *The frigates fire their big stealth missiles. The point defense grid is working at maximum capacity but cant hold of all missiles. The first frigates come into position. knowing they are out gunned and outclassed, the Cruiser aim their heavy weaponry to the enemy, while destroyers try to flank and frigates accelerate to break into enemy lines while firing railguns.
The ships dont have any sort of shielding, but heavy armor and cannons. knowing this, they have to go all in and concentrate their fire, while not holding anything back.
the fighters are a hard target, but the defensive grid established by the PD of the frigates being coordinated near perfection can stop nearly all. The outpost at the top, mistaken for the bridge, gets destroyed, crippling the HDC firestorms sensor equipment and by this takes her out of fight for an unknow duration. Seeing this, the other cruiser sends a distress call to all HDC forces that might listen, but even they themselves doubt anyone would come
The Caloris armor of the bigger ships is able to hold of beam fire and other heat based attacks quite well, but the smaller destroyers get some critical hits, one loses his engines, another one is completely destroyed
The rockets flight patterns seem to cause quite some confusion for the AI controlling the PD. The weird form of flight lets it think it sees some kind of fighter and so only heavier PD starts firing. When an officer noticed the mistake, he changes some AI settings, causing some missiles to be overseen. the missiles hit hard and cause the Caloris to break up at some points and opening weak spots.
The destroyers closing up is a thread to the bigger ships, so the frigates try to snipe them with railguns while the first salvo of stealth rockets is sent. Those rockets are quite new, and nearly invisible to radar or heat sensors, especially while near ships. They time the railguns precisely so one can put down the shield of a destroyer, and the other shoots right through the middle. They use a special railgun ammunition, that splits into multiple shots mid flight to do maximum damage and maximum penetration, but to use this kind, the first have to shoot out the shells with explosive charge. They use these to aim for the first row of attacking enemies.
The only cruiser in battle condition tries to move in front of the HDC firestorm stays in the back, shooting with cannons while giving direction to launch missiles via Morse code and blinking lights to the HDC firestorm The cannons are heavy and rotate slowly. The shoot quite inaccurate but with a great velocity. It aims at th enemy cruisers and tries to keep them at distance
The destroyers swarm out to the side, ready to return to flank the enemy destroyers or to counterattack.*
Hannizio
that was kolas group
ZendikaroftheWest oh, good to know (sorry if my response was to much, this is kind of my first combat event)